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nwiltse 's review for:
Home of the Brave
by Katherine Applegate
Told by Kek, a ten year old Sudanese refugee who was sent to Minnesota. Kek is so endearing, I wanted to give him a hug. I hope when students read this book, they don't mistake Kek's cultural naivete for being less intelligent. I worried that even it's format- free verse, simple simple simple- seemed to play into a stereotype of refugees as 'simple.' Hopefully, I'm overthinking it. This really showed what it would be like to drop from a war-torn nightmare in Sudan to a Minnesota winter.